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James May covers various inventions and discoveries over the past century and discusses their implications on our daily lives.
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Episode 1
29 mins
May concludes that the major breakthroughs in transportation over the last 100 years shrunk the world not by allowing us to see more of it, but--thanks to television, computers, and fiber optic cable--by increasingly bringing it to us.